Neverland

Neverland

People may say they see shapes in the clouds, pictures in the stars, or even tell stories of disbelief, but only in the mind of the beholder can the imagination truly run wild. It can be enhanced with fantastical visions and be made in to anything. This is the only place where freedom may be completely upheld in the present world. In the movie Finding Neverland, the imagination, the inner child, and the suspension of disbelief is clearly portrayed throughout. The mind with holds the only real tool that can be used in any given situation for any emotion.

As seen in Finding Neverland, the imagination is capable of many unexplainable things. It shows emotions in the form of visions. In the movie, James Barrie (Johnny Depp) drowns out his audience for the first play because he knows how awful it is. He envisions a torrential rain pouring down on them so that he will not have to see how they really feel. The audience never captured his childish concept, and took it too seriously. They just could not see the "real" picture. This is why children had a better effect on play when they sat in to watch his next play. Here they brought out each individual's inner child. This is only one concept of many that ultimately relate to the imagination. The inner child can be brought out at any time for just about any circumstance and make the best of any given situation.

While the imagination is a powerful thing, the inner child of a person truly brings it in to a much better perspective. Each and every person was a child once, and still contains his or her own imagination; it just needs to be released. At the onset of the showing of his play, nobody could quite grasp the purpose of it. With the orphan's laughter filtered in, everyone was exposed to their very own inner child. These silly episodes of fitful laughter by the seemingly harmless orphans had brought forth an uproarious audience filled with joy. The happiness that ensued overwhelmed them all, and when the play ended, everyone was delighted but all of this occurred because of a few fits of laughter from orphans. When stimulated, the inner child can easily bring out the joy in all but only if there is belief in the imaginable.

Sometimes we must suspend our disbelief just to imagine the "impossible." The only possible way to do something "impossible" is to make sure that it is believable. When Michael first attempts to fly a kite in the movie, nobody